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title: "Are AI detectors accurate?"
description: "Not reliably. AI detectors guess based on writing patterns like predictability and sentence rhythm, not on who actually wrote the text. They can catch some machine writing, but they are widely..."
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date: 2026-09-20
modified: 2026-09-20
author: "Remove AI Tells"
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# Are AI detectors accurate?

Not reliably. AI detectors guess based on writing patterns like predictability and sentence rhythm, not on who actually wrote the text. They can catch some machine writing, but they are widely reported to produce false positives on real human work. A score is a probability, not proof, so it should never be treated as final evidence on its own.